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Use the form below to search for documents in Member's Interest's Pages containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.
Query Language
The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:
- household servants
- finds documents containing 'household' or 'servants'
- household or servants
- same as above
- household and servants
- finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'
- servants not household
- finds documents containing 'servants' but not 'household'
- (servants not household) and VICTORIAN
- finds documents containing 'VICTORIAN', plus 'servants' but not 'household'
- mig*
- finds documents containing words starting with 'mig', for instance, migration, migratory, migrant